Word: ago
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...imaginary haps and mishaps of gods and demi-gods? What the conciseness of Pope, the grandeur of Milton, the exquisite finish of Tennyson, the beauties and excellences of all modern genius, when I can find the semblance of these qualities in a language of two thousand years ago...
...Dost thou remember how, years ago...
Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball...
AMONG the other reforms held in view by the College Government, we trust that an alteration and improvement of the Gymnasium holds a prominent place. The present building was erected some dozen years ago, when the importance of physical culture was just beginning to meet with its proper recognition, and when, moreover, the great increase in the number of students did not seem so near at hand as it afterwards proved to be. To-day the Gymnasium entirely fails to accomplish the object for which it was built. Let any one who doubts this visit the place between the hours...
...needs be, discover, his antecedents; while the reading public lavishes upon him that superfluous enthusiasm which friends or lovers do not absorb, and it is long odds that he gives his name to a paper collar or to a new form of suspender. It was not so very long ago that that particular school arose which almost did away with our preconceived notions of the simplicity and dignity of poetry, and, by its very grotesqueness, made us stand aghast, - a school which, to use Lowell's comprehensive description, makes the mistake of supposing that imagination is common sense turned inside...